The national rowing team of Great Britain showed excellent performances at Lake Bled World Cup. The British crew won six of 14 final A races, finishing first respectively. Besides that Britain also got five silver medals. Canada was next up with two wins, the US, New Zealand, Denmark, Croatia, Belarus and the Czech Republic each winning one event. The prestigious race of the ...

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The last day of racing at the World Cup meet in Bled started early today with A finals on from 8.50 in the morning. A full spectator stand saw many interesting races, Slovenia finished with one sixth and one ninth place. The double sculls with Iztok Cop and Olaf Tufte finished fourth for Norway. Cop and Tufte, the pair rowed for Norway, had a slow start, rowing fifth through ...

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Organizers of the World Rowing Cup at Lake Bled were forced to change the Sunday competition schedule due to bad weather forecast. Finals A will therefore start already at 8.50 (not 10.50) and will be followed by finals B starting at 12.20. The preliminary schedule planned finals B before finals A. The Sunday's program for Slovenia's boats is as follows: Cop will row the double ...

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Second day racing at the Bled World Cup saw important visitors at the banks of the lake. President of the International Rowing Federation (FISA) Denis Oswald visited the morning regatta session. Before that he took a look around the boat house in Mala Zaka and spoke with several members of the organizing committee. Also a part of the morning events was the Slovenian Environmental ...

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Second day rowing was accompanied by rain in the afternoon program. After the morning sun clouds covered the sky above the Lake and soon first raindrops started. Racing conditions were even harder when gusts of wind blew across the lake, finishing times were therefore much slower than the day before. Slovenia will have two boats in the finals on Sunday. First up was the double ...

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Slovenia finished the first day of Rowing World Cup in Bled with mixed feelings. None of the three Slovenian boats managed to qualify directly to finals and had to row additional races. Iztok Cop, who rows together with the Norwegian great Olaf Tufte under the Norwegian flag, won his double sculls qualifying group respectively. “We didn't row as one in the boat, actually ...

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Nice weather, great races and already many spectators were key features of the first day racing at Lake Bled. Everything went underway as planned, the organizers also managed to squeeze in competition races of adaptive rowing, that were canceled yesterday due to stronger winds. First day racing already showed several good performances of familiar faces, whereas some youngsters ...

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Today's qualifying for adaptive rowers was cancelled due to strong winds and was rescheduled for Friday. The morning will feature qualifying, the afternoon repechage races. Among Slovenian crews the lightweight double scull with Matevz Malesic and Jure Cvet will be the first to start at 12.24. The Slovenian crew has no less than 23 opponents, their qualifying group consists ...

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All three Slovenian crews that will take part in the upcoming World Cup at Lake Bled this weekend - the coxless four, quadruple scull and the lightweight double scul - revealed its goals for the competition. The national headcoach Milos Jansa said that no additional preparation training was made prior to the event, the regatta will serve as a test of current boat speed and new-formed ...

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Slovenia's president Mr. Danilo Tuerk on Tuesday visited Lake Bled, which hosts the upcoming Rowing World Cup this weekend and World Championships next year. He made sure that works in the Rowing Centre are well underway and that everything is on schedule. After meeting with the organising committee president Janez Bencina and other representatives from the organising committee ...

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